As a result of seeing Lauren Graham looking so utterly seductive in the 2003 movie Bad Santa this past week, I decided to give the T.V. series Parenthood a try.
Note that I have fancied Lauren even before the T.V. series The Gilmore Girls, but I am surprised that she acted in Bad Santa while that series was still running ─ the woman was so danged alluring in the movie that I can't equate her with her The Gilmore Girls role.
I now don't remember what it was that I saw Lauren in that attracted me so much to her and got me tuned in to The Gilmore Girls, but it seems to me that she had to have been playing up the seduction game most effectively to have roped me in as she managed to do ─ she certainly had the physical attributes.
Anyway, I located the premiere episode of Parenthood through one of the 'apps' that I have downloaded into our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box ─ the entire series is available there ─ so I am going to have a long, long time to enjoy her.
I thought that I recognized the actress playing her rather rebellious teen daughter in Parenthood, correctly believing that she resembled one of the three main characters in the current T.V. series Good Girls which I am presently watching.
It is indeed actress Mae Whitman who has those two roles.
It is indeed actress Mae Whitman who has those two roles.
However, in Good Girls Mae is the mother of Sadie, a tween who looks old enough to be bordering on puberty.
It almost stretches my credulity that Mae can also be the rebellious teen in the 2010 premiere episode of Parenthood and ─ eight years later ─ be the mother in Good Girls who has a child of her own that is not too much younger than the teen daughter she had played in Parenthood back in 2010.
It's going to be interesting to me to watch her development in that latter series as I work my way through the seasons' episodes.
I found it to be an interesting coincidence that in Good Girls, Mae's older sister is played by gorgeous Christina Hendricks who more or less replaced Lauren Graham as the 'hot to trot' sex interest for the Billy Bob Thornton character in 2016's Bad Santa 2, the sequel to Bad Santa.
In other words, the actress playing Mae's T.V. mom in Parenthood was bonking the Bad Santa character in the first movie; and then 13 years later the actress portraying Mae's older sister in Good Girls takes over Lauren's role and romps with the same foul dude in Bad Santa 2.
I hope I can get to watch a more traditional Christmas movie later this afternoon / early evening. However, I pretty much need for my younger brother to spend the evening with his girlfriend Bev and stay overnight at her home to help make that possible. This is what he usually does on Saturdays; but now he is into his first week of a driving suspension, so it's not like he can be driving her home from work like he would normally have done (she works in a bar).
Will he instead walk her home this evening? It's not at all far ─ I don't think she lives more than a half mile from her job.
However, when he spends Saturday / Sunday nights at her home, he drives her to work Sunday morning and then comes home to shower, drink coffee, read the Sunday morning edition of the The Province that I subscribe to, and whatever else it is that he does before seeking some bed rest midday prior to taking off again for the afternoon.
She lives at least two miles from us ─ I can't imagine that he would care much for the early-morning commute home from her residence if he is unable to drive. Thus, I rather fear that he will just make his way home this evening and forestall any such distasteful morning commuting experience tomorrow.
I prefer having Saturday evening to myself. Oh, sure, my two stepsons may be home, but they would leave me in peace ─ and aren't drunk like my brother would be.
I have yet to turn on the outdoor Christmas lights that are strung all along the undersides of the roof of our open-sided double carport, as well as all around the borders of our living room window. So far, I have only turned on the Christmas lights in the living room ─ these two photos are from mid-December last year and illustrate what our living room looks like all lit up:
Once the outside lights are on, these next three photos from the end of December last year that were taken from well outside and looking back at the house show what can be expected ─ incidentally, the carport lights blink:
What's holding me back is that I would like to get at least one more of those window ornaments to complement the Santa and the Rudolph that we already have. It would also be nice to have something illuminating some of the outside of the upper floor ─ you can't even tell that we have an upper floor by looking at those three outside photos, but we do.
I went out early this a.m. and hiked at least a mile to the Walmart over at Surrey Place / Central City ─ I timed myself to arrive there soon after the store's 7:00 a.m. opening so that I could avoid the public.
The Walmart website advertises a variety of the "lighted Christmas window silhouettes" that I was after, but that outlet had none at all. Another store in that mall was also supposed to carry them ─ a store which doesn't open until 8:00 a.m.; but I discovered this past week through Google that this specific outlet of Bed, Bath & Beyond is now "permanently closed".
I know of no other source in Whalley for these lighted window displays, so maybe I will just try ordering them online from Walmart and pick them up at the same store that I went to this morning.
As for 'lighting up' the outdoor lights, I only need to set up those 'ropes' and other lights that are just outside the front door. The other Christmas lights are all left up year-round, for they are all sheltered from rain by an extensive overhang of the roof.
But that ain't a gonna happen today! As I type these words, it is now already 5:15 p.m. and dark outside. Although I did return to bed this morning awhile after my hike to Walmart and back, I needed another nap after some early afternoon exercise and my day's first meal.
I wasn't in bed much over an hour, but it was already after 4:00 p.m. when I sought that final nap. The lighting chore had entirely slipped my mind.
Well, tomorrow's another day, but at least I can turn on the lights lining the carport. I have not done so this season as yet, and it will give me the opportunity to locate any bulbs that have burned out since they lit up the night last year early this past January.
So I will get this post published, and settle upon a Christmas movie ─ I already have one in mind. It's a 2004 feature. But I won't talk about it until it has been watched.
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